Cutting The Gordian Knot

By Jacob Buscher

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Lighthearted and informative commentary on theological, philosophical, societal, and economic topics all from a Catholic perspective.

Episode Date
Judges Part 2: Fat People, Ox Goads, and the Word of God
May 18, 2024
The Worst Arguments for Atheism (And Stronger Replacements)
May 11, 2024
Book of Judges Part 1
May 04, 2024
The Worst Arguments for God (And Ones I Like Instead)
Apr 27, 2024
“Build Baby Build!” With Dr Bryan Caplan
Apr 20, 2024
Chatting with Pat Flynn about objections to theism
Apr 13, 2024
Reformed Theologian’s Favorite Verses……Backfiring
Apr 06, 2024
Is Universal Basic Income a Good Idea?
Mar 30, 2024
The Question Protestants Can’t Answer
Mar 23, 2024
St. Joseph: The Last Old Testament Patriarch
Mar 16, 2024
What they didn’t tell you about the Least Read Book of the Bible
Mar 09, 2024
A Catholic Approach to Anxiety & Depression with Gary Capone
Mar 02, 2024
Fr. Sirico on Free-Markets and Catholic Social Teaching
Feb 24, 2024
Plato and The Death-Ponies (minor prophet series)
Feb 18, 2024
A Free Market Building & Zoning Scheme
Feb 10, 2024
Where are you God? The Problem of Divine Hiddeness
Feb 03, 2024
8 Religious orders I wish existed
Jan 27, 2024
Hell, Hope, and The Pope
Jan 20, 2024
Ben Shapiro versus Alex O’Connor a review
Jan 13, 2024
The 8 Levels of Charity by Maimonides
Jan 06, 2024
How Not to Make a New Years Resolution
Dec 30, 2023
“The Case For Shareholder Capitalism” with David McLean
Dec 23, 2023
Rebroadcast: Is Christmas Pagan?
Dec 22, 2023
What If Political Views Were Coherent?
Dec 16, 2023
I’m Interviewed On The “4th Way”
Dec 09, 2023
Does Jordan Peterson believe in God? Pat Flynn and I discuss
Dec 02, 2023
What they didn’t tell you about Jonah
Nov 25, 2023
Is It Wrong To Be Rich?
Nov 18, 2023
Jon Hartley: Making Real Estate Affordable
Nov 11, 2023
Dr. Lawrence White: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin?
Nov 04, 2023
Witches and Trolls
Oct 28, 2023
6 Catholic Things That Protestants could Accept (Part 2)
Oct 21, 2023
Interviewing EJ Antoni: What’s Wrong With Fractional Reserve Banking?
Oct 19, 2023
Interview with Steve Ray: Genesis: Abraham & Sarah
Oct 14, 2023
RCIA Class: The Incarnation (Bonus Episode)
Oct 12, 2023
6 “Catholic” Things That Protestants Could Accept While Staying Protestant (Part 1)
Oct 07, 2023
Rich Men North of Richmond Analysis
Sep 30, 2023
5 Protestant Ideas That Not Even Protestants Should Accept
Sep 23, 2023
Mailbag Extravaganza: Tacos, Economic Regulation, Judas, Rollerblades, and more
Sep 16, 2023
Unions: Good Or Evil? An Economic and Magisterial Analysis
Sep 09, 2023
Pat Flynn: The Best Argument For God
Sep 02, 2023
Solomon, Plato, & The Meaning of Life
Aug 26, 2023
What They Didn’t Tell You About Cain & Able
Aug 19, 2023
Church & State Part 5: The Virtue That Saves The World
Aug 12, 2023
Thumper The Rabbit Crushes Atheism
Aug 05, 2023
Church & State Part 4: Freedom
Jul 29, 2023
Dr. John Bergsma on Israelite Marriage
Jul 22, 2023
Derosa Debate Debrief: Captive Brides
Jul 15, 2023
A Critique of Tony Annett’s Economic Article
Jul 08, 2023
Church & State Part 3: Friendship and “diversity, equity, and inclusion”
Jul 01, 2023
Church & State Part 2: Man and Woman
Jun 24, 2023
Biblical Proof of The Trinity
Jun 17, 2023
My Wife’s talk on The Four Marian Dogmas
Jun 10, 2023
Trent Horn Debrief on Climate Change Debate
Jun 10, 2023
Church and State Part 1: Greatest Commandments
Jun 03, 2023
Does God Command Genocide?
May 27, 2023
Br. Rooney on T. Swift and T. Aquinas
May 20, 2023
What they didn’t tell you about Jacob & Esau
May 12, 2023
What’s up with the Charismatic Gifts?
May 06, 2023
PSA: Evangelism
May 06, 2023
Leviticus Part 7: Blessings & Curses
Apr 29, 2023
Pat Flynn Comments on Michael Jackson’s Song “Beat It”
Apr 22, 2023
Leviticus Part Six: Life & Death
Apr 15, 2023
Leviticus part 5: Day of Atonement and More
Apr 08, 2023
Climate change: What To Make Of It
Apr 06, 2023
Leviticus Part 4: Leprosy and More
Apr 01, 2023
Taylor Swift’s “Karma” (A Theological Analysis)
Mar 25, 2023
“A Conservative Economic Vision” Interview with David Bahnsen
Mar 21, 2023
Leviticus Part 3: Consumed by Fire
Mar 18, 2023
Mailbag Extravaganza!
Mar 16, 2023
Leviticus Part 2: Mandatory Offerings
Mar 11, 2023
Speed-Busting Myths about Capitalism
Mar 08, 2023
Your New Favorite Book (Leviticus)
Mar 04, 2023
Capitalism Myths: Greed, Expansion, a System?
Mar 01, 2023
3 Capitalism Myths Busted!
Feb 25, 2023
“Stretch forth your hand” When reaching for God breaks his commandments
Feb 18, 2023
One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic
Feb 11, 2023
Defeating All Sins (Benedictine Style)
Feb 04, 2023
What’s a Thomist to do with the Divine Energies?
Jan 28, 2023
Adam & Eve with John Derosa
Jan 21, 2023
Artificial Intelligence (with an AI cohost for the Mailbag)
Jan 14, 2023
Rerum Novarum Part 5: The Grand Finale
Jan 07, 2023
Whoa! It’s almost Epiphany!
Jan 04, 2023
Rerum Novarum part 4: Wages, Unions, Strikes and more.
Dec 30, 2022
Is Christmas Pagan?
Dec 19, 2022
Fr. Gregory Pine on Tobacco and Sanctity
Dec 16, 2022
Slavery Reparations?
Dec 14, 2022
The Irreducibility of The Human Person with Dr. Mark Spencer
Dec 10, 2022
Rerum Novarum Part 3 (Christian Charity and Stuff)
Dec 03, 2022
The Lord’s Prayer
Nov 30, 2022
Rerum Novarum part 2
Nov 26, 2022
What’s in Rerum Novarum?
Nov 19, 2022
Interview with “The Other Paul” on Sola Scriptura
Nov 12, 2022
Young Earth Creationism vs Atheistic Evolution (Why everybody’s wrong)
Nov 05, 2022
Pascals wager is stronger than you think
Oct 29, 2022
Student loan forgiveness and the mail bag
Oct 22, 2022
Dr. Robert Delfino on the 5th Way
Oct 19, 2022
End of the World (part 2) 666, Simon the Magician and more
Oct 10, 2022
The End of The World! (Part 1)
Oct 05, 2022
Aliens (and the mailbag returns)
Oct 01, 2022
Freewill, Determinism, and Hell
Sep 24, 2022
What’s up with Moses striking the Rock?
Sep 19, 2022
Monarchy vs. Aristocracy vs. Democracy
Sep 16, 2022
The Catholic Gospel vs Faith Alone
Sep 12, 2022
How did the World get rich? Why did the Industrial revolution happen?
Sep 08, 2022
Gratitude Vs The Power of Positive Thinking
Sep 02, 2022
Part 2 : Jacob Imam/Mark Barnes article on stock market investing
Aug 29, 2022
Why Aquinus’s 4th Way is the Bomb
Aug 21, 2022
Interview on the Classical Theism Podcast: Defending 4th Way
Aug 16, 2022
12 Reasons Why Lucifer Was The Angelic Ruler of Animals
Aug 13, 2022
Non-Cringy Theology of the Body
Jul 30, 2022
Chatting with Trent Horn about his Jacob Imam debate
Jul 26, 2022
Interview With Ryan Mullins on Philosophy of Time
Jul 13, 2022
Interview with John Boyle: How to read Scripture like the Church Fathers
Jul 11, 2022
Interview with Dr. Ross Cameron about Spotlight Theory
Jul 01, 2022
Well, It’s About Time
Jun 24, 2022
Part 1: A review of an economic article by Jacob Imam and Mark Barnes
Jun 20, 2022
Who is St. Augustine?
Jun 17, 2022
A Catholic Approach to Patent Regulation
Jun 13, 2022
Catholicism versus Calvinism: How much of TULIP is right?
Jun 10, 2022
Scriptural Exegesis: Noah’s Ark
Jun 06, 2022
What to do about “Pride Month”
Jun 03, 2022
All About Gun Violence
May 30, 2022
Taxes: Economics and Morality
May 27, 2022
Revenge!
May 23, 2022
Chatting With Pat Flynn
May 20, 2022
Reading the Story of Joseph in Genesis
May 17, 2022
Inflation: 7 Solutions
May 13, 2022
Defending “Big T” Tradition and the Church’s teaching authority
May 09, 2022
Scriptural Exegesis: The Tower of Babel
May 06, 2022
Annihilationism: 4 Philosophical Objections
May 02, 2022
Education savings accounts
Apr 29, 2022
New Argument For a Finite Past
Apr 25, 2022
Usury! Usury! Half The Sin It Used To Be
Apr 22, 2022
Interview with Rabbi Tovia Singer
Apr 18, 2022
Interview with Vanessa Forsblad on Apologetics in the University
Apr 15, 2022
Why Distributism must be stopped!
Apr 11, 2022
Holy Week
Apr 08, 2022
Income Inequality: Why the Marxist Hordes are Wrong Again
Apr 04, 2022
Interview with Bruce Killian On Why Christ Had to Rise in 3 Days (and a ton of other cool stuff)
Apr 01, 2022
The Marxist vs Christian approach to History
Mar 28, 2022
It’s Lent: Should we be giving money to homeless people?
Mar 25, 2022
Top 10 Reasons to be a Christian
Mar 21, 2022
Interview With John Derosa on Apologetics
Mar 18, 2022
Scriptural Exegesis: John 8 The Woman Caught in Adultery.
Mar 14, 2022
Interview With Wade Tisthammer on The Eternal Society Paradox
Mar 11, 2022
Interview with Fr. Gregory Pine on Prudence
Mar 07, 2022
What’s Wrong with Marxist Philosophy?
Mar 04, 2022
Debrief of Jacob Imam Episode and Why Distributism is Wrong
Feb 28, 2022
Top 10 Reasons to be a Theist
Feb 25, 2022
Three languages of politics: How our life together went wrong
Feb 21, 2022
Interview with Noelle Mering on her book “Awake not Woke”
Feb 18, 2022
Interview with Pat Flynn on The Problem of Evil
Feb 14, 2022
Interview with Decon Dillon Bruce on Christ’s decent into Hell
Feb 11, 2022
Interview with Trent Horn on Free-Markets, Socialism, & Why Catholics Ought to Care About Economics
Feb 07, 2022
Interview with Paul Fahey on The Magisterium and Capital Punishment
Feb 04, 2022
Listener Questions: Geocentrism, Celibacy, Female Priests, Anglican’s, The Garden of Eden and more.
Jan 31, 2022
Top 10 Reasons You Should Become Catholic
Jan 28, 2022
Scrupulosity, The Unforgivable Sin, and Skipping Mass for The Sniffles
Jan 24, 2022
Interview with Jacob Imam on Catholic Economics
Jan 21, 2022
Interview with Pat Flynn: Faith, Fitness, Philosophy, and Everything Else
Jan 19, 2022
Transgenderism: A Christian Perspective
Jan 17, 2022
Universal Healthcare and HSA’s
Jan 14, 2022
Bonus: Announcing Special Guests and Opening the Mailbag.
Jan 12, 2022
Debate: Was it Immoral for the US to have dropped the Atomic Bombs on Japan
Jan 10, 2022
Why Should I Listen to You? A Guide to Testimonial Evidence
Jan 07, 2022
Bonus Episode: Reddit Questions
Jan 05, 2022
Think Again: Why Your Faith Needs Reason
Jan 03, 2022
Faith: A Brief Defense
Dec 28, 2021
A Scriptural Tour of Catholic Marian Doctrines
Dec 24, 2021
CON Laws & Interview Debrief
Dec 20, 2021
Interview: Paul Fahey on Property Rights, Catholic Social Teaching, and our Duty to the Poor
Dec 17, 2021
Bonus Episode: PWA Eucharist debate comments, Universalism, and Price Gouging.
Dec 15, 2021
Immigration: The Market Solution
Dec 13, 2021
An Underrated Argument for God: Aquinas’s 4th Way
Dec 11, 2021
Bonus Q/A Episode: Weight loss, Priest abuse scandal, Casserole dishes, Revenge and more.
Dec 08, 2021
Abortion: What if You Were Wrong?
Dec 06, 2021
The Eucharist Part 3: Philosophy, Tradition, and Objections
Dec 03, 2021
The Eucharist Part 2: The New Testament
Nov 29, 2021
The Eucharist Part 1: The Old Testament
Nov 26, 2021
The Natural Law
Nov 22, 2021
6ish Economic Misconceptions
Nov 20, 2021
Why the Hell?
Nov 19, 2021
10 Tips to get working out
Nov 19, 2021
Evil Sucks: Why is it Here?
Nov 18, 2021
Sell your Organs, Save a Life
Nov 17, 2021
Lying: Can it Ever be Done?
Nov 17, 2021
St Thomas Aquinas presentation
Nov 17, 2021
Purgatory: It’s Good News…..No really!
Nov 16, 2021
The Death Penalty: How could a Christian Not Support it?
Nov 16, 2021
Start here: What is this podcast?
Nov 16, 2021